Assistant Director – Data Management & Reporting

Job Description

• Assistant Director role within Columbia University's Office of Planning and Institutional Research, supporting higher-education institutional data collection, analysis, interpretation, reporting, and governance.
• Prepare mandatory federal, state, accreditation, and institutional reports; contribute to the Statistical Abstract, Columbia FACTS, and Common Data Set; and produce recurring, dashboard, ad hoc, and executive-level reports.
• Build and maintain reporting databases, SQL Server extraction/transformation/validation workflows, automation processes, documentation, data dictionaries, and the OPIR institutional data hub.
• Apply data governance and stewardship principles to improve data integrity, consistency, security, quality control, reporting reliability, and compliance obligations.
• Requires a bachelor's degree or equivalent in a relevant field, four years of relevant professional experience preferred, relational database/SQL and data modeling experience, and proficiency with PowerBI, Tableau, Oracle Analytics Cloud, Excel, R, or Python. Location: New York, NY; work mode not specified.